Waterfront and offshore facilities are classified based on their capacity to transfer or store oil. Oil that is integral to equipment, such as oil in transformers or lubricating oil in machinery, is not included in determining storage or transfer capacity. (1) Small--A facility that transfers oil through pipelines, flow lines, gathering lines, or trunk lines with a line diameter of four inches or less or that has the capacity to store 1,320 gallons or less of oil. (2) Intermediate--A facility that transfers oil through pipelines, flow lines, gathering lines, or trunk lines with a line diameter of greater than four inches up to and including twelve inches or that has the capacity to store more than 1,320 gallons up to and including 250,000 gallons of oil. (3) Large--A facility that transfers oil through pipelines, flow lines, gathering lines, or trunk lines with a line diameter greater than 12 inches or that has the capacity to store more than 250,000 gallons of oil. |
